Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 300
Release Date: May 1988
Highlights
- First appearance of Venom, AKA Eddie Brock
- Some, including Todd McFarlane consider issue 299 to be his first appearance
- First appearance and death of NYPD officer, Jack Sr.
- First appearance of Lyden House Hotel, Bedford Towers, and Our Lady Of Saints Church
- Mary Jane sits in the corner of their apartment, tears rolling down her eyes, she's afraid of the beast she's just seen
- Peter returns home, still in his black suit, she doesn't immediately recognizes him, and begs him to stay away until he removes his mask
- Mary Jane explains the features of Venom, though she doesn't know or say his name
- She tells Peter she can't stay in the apartment, and Peter tells her he'll pack a bag for them to go to a hotel
- Reference is made to Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars 9, Web Of Spider-Man 1, The Amazing Spider-Man 259, and Spider-Man Versus Wolverine
- Though he doesn't know who the man wearing it was, Peter deduces that what Mary Jane explained was someone in his symbiote suit
- Mary Jane tells Peter she was able to secure them a condo in Bedford Towers, and Peter agrees to move
- Spider-Man borrows the sonic blaster from the Fantastic Four, the same blaster which Reed Richards used to remove the symbiote from Spider-Man back in The Amazing Spider-Man 258
- Peter feels like he's being followed down the street, but his spider sense isn't picking up any danger
- Peter and Mary Jane visit the condo, and Peter starts to feel bad that he won't have the type of money it will take to actually contribute to the expense
- Mary Jane suggests he switch to fashion model photography, and says he can get some practice on her with some photos for their private collection, as she slips out of everything
- Peter and Mary Jane have dinner at Aunt May's home that evening, and Mary Jane ensures his Aunt that they both want her in their lives
- Eddie Brock has broken into Our Lady Of Saint's Church, the place where the symbiote first found him
- Office Jack thinks Eddie is the one who's been stealing from the offering box, and finds out the hard way that there's something much more going on than mere robbery
- The symbiote kills Jack
- Peter and Mary Jane's friends all work together to get them moved relatively quickly
- Robbie and Peter talk on the balcony, and Peter tells him there's something he needs to take care of
- That something is seeing Venom webbing through the city
- Spider-Man follows Venom to an abandoned building, thinking his spider sense will warn him of any danger as he enters
- He's wrong
- Eddie Brock reveals himself to Spider-Man, and he recognizes him immediately
- Eddie tells him how Peter Parker ruined his career at the Daily Globe
- These events unfolded "between the lines of Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 107 - 110"
- Eddie was writing a story on who Sin-Eater was, but he was using the sources of a chronic confessor, who wasn't really the killer
- When Sin-Eater was revealed by Spider-Man, Eddie was chastised and fired
- The symbiote found Eddie at his lowest point, ready to commit suicide
- After bonding with him, the two shared an equal purpose - Get revenge on Peter Parker, AKA Spider-Man
- After a short battle, Spider-Man is able to blast Venom with the sonic blaster, but the symbiote and he don't separate
- Spider-Man realizes that the symbiote has completely bonded with Eddie, and to separate the two, he'd have to kill them both
- He won't do that, and attempts to leave to formulate another plan
- Venom webs him, and the battle continues, though an even shorter one as Venom quickly knocks Spider-Man out
- Spider-Man comes too, and is webbed to the bell tower of the church
- When Venom takes his leave, so as to not be affected by the sonic waves of the bells as they crash into Spider-Man webbed between them, Spider-Man is able to break free
- Venom returns to find his foe not dead, and the battle continues atop the church tower roof
- Remembering what Puma told him about the webbing being organic, Spider-Man deduces that it's actually part of the symbiote, and that every time it's used, the alien must heal to replenish it
- Cutting the web each time Venom uses it results in the villain continuously using it to stop from falling, draining the suit from Eddie's body
- Spider-Man takes Venom to the Baxter Tower, where Ben Grimm receives instructions from Reed Richards on containing him in a sonic cylinder until he can be moved to a specially built prison
- Spider-Man returns home, and is greeted by a cold Mary Jane
- She tells him that after all they were just through, she can't look at his black suit
- Peter agrees he can't wear the costume which looks like a homicidal killer either, and throws it in the fire lit in the fireplace, burning it up
- Peter tells Mary Jane he's going to look silly in his underwear spinning webs, and she pulls out his red and blue suit, or rather, the costume version he got from the shop in Spider-Man Versus Wolverine
- Spider-Man is back in his classic red and blue suit
- The art work in this issue is fantastic! Todd McFarlane is making it his own
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Oddities
- None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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